Tutsy Navarathna’s machinimas never fail to amaze me. The latest, MetaPhore, exceeds any I’ve seen before and received awards at both the University of Western Australia in Second Life’s MachinimUWA VII competition and on the same day, was winner of the SciFi Film Festival’s Screen my Short award. You can see it at SL12B by…
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Second Life’s 12th birthday bash starts next weekend
In recent years my focus has been more on OpenSim than Second Life, but I’m looking forward to next week’s SL12B Community Celebration. It opens on Sunday June 21, 2015, and runs through Sunday June 28. You can see photos of SL12B on flickr. I spent the last year working mostly alone in an OpenSim virtual…
Machinima of The Man burning yesterday
If you missed the burning of The Man in Burn 2 yesterday, like I did, you can view it in a very nice machinima on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJKSp4amIlg. It can’t match the experience of being there, but the machinima itself is very nicely done.
Burn 2 – what a disappointment!
What a disappointment! You wait a year to see The Man burn in Burn 2 in Second Life, only to see a black void while others can see it and be part of it with no problem! What went wrong? I have no idea. Some people could see the Man burn and could add logs…
Earthquake / tsunami benefit planned in Second Life – how you can help
Radar Magazine in Second Life is planning a month-long benefit event to benefit victims of the Japanese earthquake and Tsunami. The event will be co-sponsored by the Red Cross. They are looking for Second Life designers to donate an item to sell or to create a one-of-a-kind item for a runway show planned for March…
Other virtual worlds to visit besides Second Life
Second Life may be the 8000 pound gorilla in the virtual worlds universe, but it’s not the only one. There are several dozen worlds for you to choose from, though most are still small and even the largest doesn’t yet come close to matching Second Life’s massive user base. Comparing worlds by population size is…
Discovering Second Life
Fireworks are traditional on American Independence Day, July 4, and so when my sister was unable to see first life fireworks yesterday, I bought her a set of Henry deCuir’s Second Life® fireworks and we spent the evening on her waterfront land in the Second Life mainland with a friend watching fireworks. The fireworks were…
Debugging Second Life performance problems
Your avatar tries to walk, but goes nowhere, then after finally making some progress suddenly gets whipped backward. If it continues happening, what should you do? Problems like this are examples of lag, and can be caused by either the Second Life server, your network connection, your computer, or your Second Life Preference settings. This…
Second Life: Dollhouse or Reality?
This weekend I heard someone say, "Second Life is just a dollhouse where people spend their time dressing avatar dolls and furnishing virtual houses!" Someone else insisted, "Second Life is a game for people who don’t want to admit they’re roleplaying." So what is Second Life? Is it just a game, a place where folks…
SLCC Day Four
Day four of the Second Life Community Convention began with.Linden Lab‘s Tom Hale (pictured on the right) unveiling new features that are coming soon, and sneak peaks at wish list items we could see over the coming year. These include features such as searchable maps, pre-developed land for sale, a new registration form for…